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Riquelme — Football Of Suits And Ties
Riquelme — Football Of Suits And Ties
When you talk about Argentina, three things come to mind: tango, football and drama. Porteño football, like a dramatic tango, has not seen…
FootMagique
Aug 22, 2018
Lightning Can Strike At The Same Place
Lightning Can Strike At The Same Place
A club that revealed Pele. Reason enough to be known and respected worldwide. But for Santos, it was not. In addition to Pelé, the greatest…
FootMagique
Aug 21, 2018
Tite’s List
Tite’s List
After the end of every World Cup there is growing expectation among the fans about the future of their national team. Who will be the new…
FootMagique
Aug 20, 2018
Soccer As A Living Organism
Soccer As A Living Organism
José Mourinho changed the way we played football. The Portuguese was the main exponent of tactical periodization, a new way of training…
FootMagique
Aug 8, 2018
Speculations On Chaos, Football, And Analysis
Speculations On Chaos, Football, And Analysis
Chaos is usually defined, in mathematical terms, as the property of a dynamical system whose evolution is highly sensitive to small…
FootMagique
Aug 7, 2018
Which Neymar Will We Watch Next?
Which Neymar Will We Watch Next?
“We’re creating a monster.” That’s how Renê Simões characterized Neymar in 2010. Santos faced an Atletico Goianiense side led by Renê and…
FootMagique
Aug 5, 2018
Gioco All’italiana: An Unbiased Explanation
Gioco All’italiana: An Unbiased Explanation
We’re used to use typologies, creating a sort of imaginary map where we put things in closed boxes so we can analyse complex questions…
FootMagique
Aug 4, 2018
Richarlison — From Slums to the Premier League
Richarlison — From Slums to the Premier League
Richarlison’s story is another of those traditional stories of many Brazilian footballers: he was born in poverty and took advantage of his…
FootMagique
Aug 3, 2018
Sarri’s Blue World
Sarri’s Blue World
Officially, Sarri came to Chelsea this season. Symbolically, he was already destined for the blues long before, perhaps since March 4…
FootMagique
Aug 2, 2018
PL Generation U-20: Who To Keep An Eye On
PL Generation U-20: Who To Keep An Eye On
Prognostics are always problematic because they involve a certain exasperation of reality. Today, this writer perceives potential in these…
FootMagique
Aug 1, 2018
Pochettino’s Cultivation And Nurturing of Young Players
Pochettino’s Cultivation And Nurturing of Young Players
Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Roberto Pochettino has emerged as one of the most the most influential mangers in Europe. The…
FootMagique
Jul 31, 2018
Paul Pogba’s Most Needed Partner
Paul Pogba’s Most Needed Partner
Dreamed of by Pep Guardiola and almost a Citizen, the Brazilian box-to-box midfielder Fred was ultimately bought by Manchester United…
FootMagique
Jul 30, 2018
The Love Affair Between Possession And Time
The Love Affair Between Possession And Time
Any player of excellence sees the ball as an object of desire, and even those who do not even know what to do with it like to have it in…
FootMagique
Jul 29, 2018
About Struggle And How To Be Proud
About Struggle And How To Be Proud
In football unanimity is, as it is said in Brazil, “White Flies.” They are extremely rare even if the professional has titles and honors…
FootMagique
Jul 28, 2018
The Dutch Spain
The Dutch Spain
The Netherlands and Spain are not close only in football. Through history, they have an intense relationship since when the Dutch language…
FootMagique
Jul 27, 2018
The Day We Lost Our Fears
The Day We Lost Our Fears
Time flies. It feels like yesterday when we were all celebrating our greatest achievement to date, but it’s been eight years already. Had…
FootMagique
Jul 26, 2018
Muniain and Williams — The Times They Are A-Changin’
Muniain and Williams — The Times They Are A-Changin’
In one of the more traditional and passionate teams in all of Spain, there is a subtle and silent change happening in the Basque area…
FootMagique
Jul 25, 2018
King Arthur Arrives In Barcelona
King Arthur Arrives In Barcelona
At 21 years of age, Arthur Melo has emerged as a shooting star in Brazil. All very fast, beautiful and intense. I’d even venture to say…
FootMagique
Jul 24, 2018
Edmundo — Loyalty, Trickery And Representation
Edmundo — Loyalty, Trickery And Representation
Idolatry is something very specific, but easily confused with admiration, respect and even devotion — it is different. I am a devotee of…
FootMagique
Jul 21, 2018
Maradona’s Heir At Naples
Maradona’s Heir At Naples
More than twelve thousand kilometres separate Buenos Aires from Banská Bystrica. So far, yet so close. The former calls Diego his son. The…
FootMagique
Jul 20, 2018
Federico Chiesa — Like Father, Like Son
Federico Chiesa — Like Father, Like Son
Being a football player is a task hard enough. But being a football player who turn out to be the son of a former professional…
FootMagique
Jul 19, 2018
The Weight Of Replacing Gianluigi Buffon
The Weight Of Replacing Gianluigi Buffon
The legend is gone. Gigi’s out of town and on to a new adventure in tilting France, something we would have never said was about to happen…
FootMagique
Jul 18, 2018
Bringing Back Calcio Supremacy
Bringing Back Calcio Supremacy
Italian football calls for romanticism. There is something special in it, something you don’t find in other countries, in other leagues, in…
FootMagique
Jul 17, 2018
A Match To Remember: 2018 FIFA WC Final — France vs Croatia
A Match To Remember: 2018 FIFA WC Final — France vs Croatia
To close such a great World Cup, in terms of matches, the Final hasn’t let us down. France and Croatia went on to make one of the most…
FootMagique
Jul 16, 2018
Rogério Ceni — Searching, As Manager, The Glory He Had As Goalkeeper
Rogério Ceni — Searching, As Manager, The Glory He Had As Goalkeeper
Rogério Ceni was the complete player—complete being a word that bodes him well. In the position he once played, where it is basically…
FootMagique
Jul 14, 2018
Xherdan Shaqiri — A Misunderstood Genius
Xherdan Shaqiri — A Misunderstood Genius
Four times did we see Switzerland play in Russia during the past four weeks. Four times did we watch Shaqiri command the Swiss national…
FootMagique
Jul 13, 2018
Ante Rebic — The Croatian Lightning
Ante Rebic — The Croatian Lightning
Noted for his speed and being kind of a late bloomer, Ante Rebic went on to turn himself into one of the key figures in the Croatian 2018…
FootMagique
Jul 12, 2018
It’s Time To Get On England’s Train
It’s Time To Get On England’s Train
The brits created the sport, developed it, entered the World Cup for the first time in its fourth edition on Brazilian ground, won the…
FootMagique
Jul 11, 2018
Romelu Lukaku — A Belgian Buffalo Roaming The Area
Romelu Lukaku — A Belgian Buffalo Roaming The Area
Had him be born or raised in a latin american country, Romelu Lukaku would have easily earned the nickname of “Tanque”, because his…
FootMagique
Jul 10, 2018
Luis Suárez & Edinson Cavani — The End Of The Charrúa Warriors
Luis Suárez & Edinson Cavani — The End Of The Charrúa Warriors
Cavani and Suarez. Suarez and Cavani. The forever-linked Uruguayan forwards, surely not for longer. One year and two days separated their…
FootMagique
Jul 9, 2018
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